Round Up!

First let's start with some football!  MSU has two recruits for the class of 2013 so far.  UM is at 5 (now upwards of 8) I want to say.  We have so far had verbal pledges from Gerald Holmes, a running back out of Flint, Michigan and Jon Reschke, a middle linebacker out of Bloomfield, Michigan.  Holmes had offers from MSU, CMU and Toledo, but also had intersted from Iowa, UM and Illinois.  Hard to say how concrete that is this early.  There is little scouting done on Holmes at this point, however, there should  be more as the summer comes and goes.   Allen Trieu of Scout has stated that Holmes has both good size and speed and missed a lot of opportunity to be seen due to an injury that caused him to miss half the season. The potential is there.

Reschke is a consensus four star linebacker at this point.  Again, due to how early this is, there is not a lot written, though ESPN lists him as a top 150 watch list (UM has 3 or 4 commits on that list already).  Jon had offers from MSU and Toledo but reportedly had interest from UM, PSU Wisconsin Northwestern and Stanford.  He seems to be a quality pickup and could end up as a top three player from the state of Michigan for the 2013 class.

Don't you just love Twitter?  Please read below.  Here are some favorites:

TerryRichardson: thats why u just a fan loser ass fuck off n get a life you fag.

AJ Williams: I smell pussy!!!

OndrePipkins:  That nigga look like a slave from Roots

MarioOjemudia:  Did bitch ass Mr. B really give me a 79.6%?  .....    the same teacher that stopped me during a test to make me give him autograph, and stops lessons just to talk about football.

I am just glad to see that America's youth is both respectful of all kinds of diversity and getting a solid education.  I am also glad that this was for UM commits, because I am sure MSU ones have similar thoughts.  I think this stuff is pretty serious, the website also states that were recruiting violations mentioned as well as alcohol use but they did not put that stuff up for legal reasons. 

I generally do not tolerate sexual or racial slurs.  I hope you all feel the same way.
 
 (I havn't read the other schools at all, Pat might be interested in the OSU ones.)
Michigan Twitter Accounts

MSU got a solid win over Purude two days ago, and UM got a huge win over OSU.  This moves MSU up to #6 and UM to #11. Not too shabby.  Right now MSU has a one game lead over OSU and UM.  The next game is Wednesday at Minnesota.  With future games homes to Nebraska at Indiana and home to OSU.  The remaining leg is tough, this game at Minny is a must win. 

That's all for now.  I should get a post up tomorrow during the Minnesota game.

Montana

Montana is nice.  Makes it hard to post anything though. Clearly my counterpart has nothing to say.  After MSU wins in bball and hockey.  I keep saying that I will try to get a post up but then I end up drinking like 9 beers at 8,000 feet.  Tonight, I have no plans in preparation for a day of snowboarding in Bridger Bowl.  So tonight, I will try to recap some things. 

Nice win against OSU, eh?  What say you!

Housekeeping

Pat did not want to mention the background change.  He is still hung up on this whole Will Gholston thing.  So I will go ahead and point out the obvious, and the stuff that has been mentioned previously.  Pat and I bet the background.  We, so far, have only settled on the MSUum football game.  So I hope everyone enjoys Joel Foreman and the Paul Bunyan trophy.  I do not think it will be back in the Ann Arbor anytime soon.  East Lansing is a little more Paul Bunyan country anyway. 

After a few weeks I will revert to a a more school neutral photo. 

Coming up tomorrow?  Some thoughts on the Wisconsin game.  Early thought?  I do not feel good about this.